Ah, i see. Yeh, we don't have the possibility to select the device ingame yet, that's a feature that might come later. For now one needs to define the default Mic in Windows.
We thought about this, but decided on purpose to not have something like that, it's simply too unrealistic even for an abstraction. We want you to be near your tables and needing to interact with it.
He needs to pick it up and give it to you as item, or transfer ownership to you via going into the Auth menu, hovering over the claim and then pressing the gear icon and selecting your name.
Arrastra line reduces the recipe costs by upgrading to the next machine object that is better. Eventually we might do this for all machines in the game instead of modules.
The ore spread is quite similar. On our discord in #general-help there is a user post pinned with more details. It's too long and unformatted to copy it here, but feel free to make a steam guide out of it.
I wasn't referring to the creation of the world, but the running of it. The creation of a world always takes ALL RAM and CPU you have, no matter how much. The more you have, the faster the world can be generated.
Do they have turned their Voice Chat on and are they near you? Voice chat needs to be enabled by everyone wanting to participate and the voice chat is area based, not global.